Henry Mower Rice

Henry Mower Rice (29 November 1816-15 January 1894) was a US Senator from Minnesota (D) from 11 May 1858 to 3 March 1863, preceding Alexander Ramsey.

Biography
Henry Mower Rice was born in Waitsfield, Vermont in 1816, and he moved to Detroit, Michigan at the age of 18. In 1839, he became a fur trader among the Winnebago and Ojibwe at Fort Snelling (near Minneapolis, Minnesota). In 1849, he lobbied for the bill to establish the Minnesota Territory, and he served as the territorial delegate to the US House of Representatives from 1853 to 1857. He went on to serve in the US Senate from 1858 to 1863 as a Democrat, and he died in 1894.